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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Captain Jerry Webber of the Manitoba was on watch when he first saw the lights of the approaching International at a distance he estimated to be 1,000 feet. He had the whistle sounded to keep his position on...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Hundreds of Winnipeggers turned out to greet the new steamboat that W.B. Nickles, the editor of the Moorhead-based Red River Star, nicknamed the “Queen of the River.” As the Manitoba steamed into...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4 of 4)
The official end of the streetcar era in Winnipeg was scheduled for September 19, 1955. On the appointed day, hundreds of people jammed the corner of Portage and Main to witness the funeral procession o...
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by Bruce Cherney (Part 3)
William “W.H.” Carter, the first chairman of the Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission (GWTC), said that no private concern could profitably run the transit system as long as the city continued to ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
By the end of 1946, when the city had a population of just 229,045 people, 105-million passengers had travelled that year on the Winnipeg Electric Company’s (WEC) streetcars, trolleys and buses. In com...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
It was a mere one-paragraph article in the Manitoba Free Press, but the small size of the item, tucked away inconspicuously near the bottom of page 5, was in stark contrast to the massive future repercussion...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
As the Sunday streetcar bylaw referendum approached, Rev. James L. Gordon, of the Central Congregational Church, said he favoured Lord’s Day service for a variety of reasons, including helping church a...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Manitoba’s Lord’s Day Act of 1898 made it “unlawful for any merchant, tradesman, artificer, mechanic, barber, workman, labourer or other such person to sell or offer for sale or to purc...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Hundreds of Winnipeggers woke up Sunday morning on July 8, 1906, excitedly anticipating the opportunity to take advantage of a service available to them for the first time in the city’s histo...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4 of 4)
Reverends Joseph Sparling, the principal of Wesley College, and William Patrick, the principal of Manitoba College, worked wonders in arbitrating the dispute between the Winnipeg Electric Railway Compan...
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